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Stock: Quest for Growth (Bel small), ISIN: BE0003730448

Last Price 4.59 Max Price 5.78
Min Price 4.52 1 Year return -42.48
Avg. Target 0.00 Expected Return -100.00 %
Sector Financials Subsector Investment companies
Sell 0 Rating
Hold 0 Concensus
Buy 0
Annual report 2017

Quest for Growth focuses on European technology-based growth companies in sectors such as life sciences, information technology, software, semiconductors, telecom, electronics, new materials and special situations in other growth sectors. Quest for Growth has been listed on Euronext Brussels since September 23rd, 1998. (ISIN: BE0003730448 / Mnemo: QFG)

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Quest for Growth is a Belgium based Privak structured company focusing on investment in Europe’s growth firms and private possessions for the conversion of revenue generation to tax free income source. There are varied sectors including IT, software, semi-conductors, telecommunications, materialization, electronics and many other specialized growing ones that are being focused upon. The company works is based on the Privak structuring, an investing vehicle developed by ‘Royal Decree’, for the capitalization and its conversion.

The primary target of the company includes small and medium sized equity firms and follows both the listed and un-listed European companies. The foundation of the company has been laid down in the year of 1998 and it has been headquartered in Leuven, Belgium with currently handled by one of the key personalities named as Jos B. Peeters, Chairman of the company. Profitability of the company in the year of 2012 can be stated by the figure of 15,701,811 EUR with the overall number of shares to be 11,529,950.


The company has been listed on the Euronext Brussels stock exchange on 23 September, 1998 and since then the shares have been traded on this market. And the investment of the company is made in a variety of the firms that have been listed in different Europe’s stock exchanges including London Stock Exchange, Deutsche and Euronext. Other than the quoted organizations, the investment is also made in non-listed companies also (15 % asset investment according to the scheme and compatibility with the company policies can be invested) but having a trading period of 36 months, rarely investing in the newly started companies. More than 100 $ million funding has been generated by the company with the amount of investing to be 1 million € from bridge finance, growth capital, start ups, shareholding loans, expansions and other minor equities.

The industrial sectors starting from telecommunication hardware, telecom’s carriers, space, nano-technology, medication, IT, environmental areas, electronics, computing products, energy, semiconductors, bio-technology upto computer hardware and software industries are preferred for the investment. The investing is also carried out in the risky areas of business enterprise funds, unlisted technical companies by following the bottom up methodology by analyzing up to the basic level. Governance of the company is done with the help of laid down rules by the corporation laws by Privak legislation (related to Ethical Codes), all of which have been applied to the Privak Directors, depositing banks, and the advising authorities.

For the consideration for the privacy structuring, a meeting of the specialized norms has to be followed by the companies in which Quest is going to invest the funds. And finally, after all the things done right, the goal of conversion of the revenue generation into tax free income with the help of Privak is being carried out.

Contact info:Street: Lei 19Zip Code: B-3000 LeuPostbox: p.o box 3City: LeuvenCountry: BelgiumPhone: 32 (0)16 28 41 Email: quest@questforgrowth.comWebsite: www.questforgrowth.com

Sector Review Quest for Growth

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Year Turnover Total sector Market share
2019 19 818,563 0.00 %
2020 19 797,168 0.00 %
2021 35 941,903 0.00 %
2022 -22 112,348 -0.02 %
2023 0 0 0.00 %

Advice Quest for Growth

Date Label Bank Label Stock Label Advice Label Price Label Diff Label
March 09, 2024 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Buy 6.40 28.28 %
January 07, 2024 DeGroof Petercam Quest for Growth Hold 5.40 15.00 %
January 07, 2024 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Buy 6.40 28.28 %
October 27, 2023 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Buy 6.40 28.28 %
January 27, 2023 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Buy 6.80 29.41 %
October 29, 2022 DeGroof Petercam Quest for Growth Hold 6.60 30.45 %
April 25, 2022 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Buy 7.40 22.70 %
January 28, 2022 DeGroof Petercam Quest for Growth Hold 8.20 28.78 %
September 03, 2021 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Buy 8.60 28.60 %
August 10, 2021 DeGroof Petercam Quest for Growth Hold 8.50 26.35 %
July 09, 2021 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Buy 8.30 25.78 %
June 02, 2021 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Hold 8.30 21.20 %
April 08, 2021 DeGroof Petercam Quest for Growth Buy 7.90 7.85 %
January 08, 2021 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Buy 7.20 -12.22 %
January 08, 2021 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Buy 7.20 -12.22 %
October 09, 2020 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Buy 6.50 -16.62 %
July 03, 2020 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Buy 6.50 -16.92 %
May 04, 2020 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Buy 5.90 -32.88 %
April 26, 2019 Kepler Capital Markets Quest for Growth Hold 6.30 -4.13 %
April 05, 2019 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Buy 6.60 32.27 %
September 05, 2018 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Hold 6.90 19.13 %
April 27, 2018 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Hold 7.60 23.16 %
January 18, 2018 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Hold 9.10 32.53 %
January 04, 2018 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Hold 8.70 30.34 %
July 28, 2017 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Hold 8.70 14.25 %
July 04, 2017 ING Quest for Growth Hold 8.70 24.60 %
April 28, 2017 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Hold 8.50 10.59 %
April 03, 2017 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Hold 8.10 -15.06 %
January 29, 2017 ING Quest for Growth Hold 7.60 -17.11 %
November 04, 2016 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Hold 7.50 -19.35 %
May 13, 2016 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Hold 7.70 -7.17 %
December 04, 2015 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Buy 11.40 37.54 %
July 24, 2015 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Buy 12.50 41.78 %
July 07, 2015 ING Quest for Growth Hold 9.80 29.49 %
July 03, 2015 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Buy 10.00 28.62 %
April 27, 2015 ING Quest for Growth Hold 8.70 -9.20 %
February 06, 2015 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Hold 8.60 -33.72 %
January 23, 2015 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Hold 8.45 -33.14 %
November 07, 2014 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Buy 8.00 -30.50 %
July 25, 2014 KBC Securities Quest for Growth Hold 7.30 -40.62 %



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Annual reports Quest for Growth

2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

Profile Quest for Growth

Quest for Growth

(BE0003730448)/ QFG

The past year was a relatively good year for Quest for Growth investors

Over the period from December 2015 till December 2016 the stock lost around 35 percent. Quest for Growth' stock rose the past 5 years at around 56 percent. Quest for Growth's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were very volatile through the time and moved between 18,2 million euros and 38,79 million euros. During 2011 and 2015 Quest for Growth's net results were quiet stable and fluctuated between -13,31 million euros and 37,9 million euros.

The head office of Quest for Growth is situated in Leuven. Quest for Growth primarily operates in the investment sector. The past 10 years the (international) industry gained at around 4 percent. Over the past 5 years the sector is 17 percent higher.

Over the past 5 years the Belgian company paid out dividends. On average Quest for Growth's dividend yield over the past 5 years was around 4,27 percent annually.

At the end of 2015 around 7 people were employed at Quest for Growth.

Quest for Growth financed with a quite low debt position

As per the end of 2015 the Belgian company's balance sheet equaled 147,88 million euros. Of the total balance sheet 37,87 million euros (25,61 percent) was financed by debt. At the end of 2016 the Belgian company was traded with a price/earnings-ratio of around 3. So investors paid 3 times the company's 2015's EPS. Based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the Belgian stock can be seen as a value stock.

The investment company's market capitalization (the number of shares outstanding times the market value) equaled around 141,85 million euros. At the end of 2015 the Belgian company had around 12,36 million stocks listed.

All the annual reports of Quest for Growth are available here. More information about Quest for Growth can be found it's website. .


Results Quest for Growth

Results
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Revenue
39
1
30
-24
19
19
Costs
1
1
2
3
2
2
Profit
38
1
27
-27
17
17
Margin of profit
97.71
37.76
92.28
110.46
87.92
88.96
ROI
34.45
0.40
16.87
-22.54
12.29
11.14

Balance Quest for Growth

Balance
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Equity
110
135
162
119
136
153
Debt
38
0
0
0
0
Total assets
148
135
162
119
136
153
Solvency
74.39
99.96
99.98
99.96
99.96
99.97
Cash
13
13
19
12
14
10
Cashflow
0
0
-2
12
2
-1
Employees
0
0
0
0
0
Revenue per employee
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
0.0
Cashflow / Debt
0.0
0.0
-40.00
231.00
34.20
-30.75

Details Quest for Growth

Details
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
Price
10.64
7.65
8.81
6.02
5.90
Eps
0.04
1.81
-1.65
1.00
1.02
Price/earnings-ratio
266.00
4.23
-5.34
6.02
4.50
Dividend
0.0
1.54
0.0
0.0
Dividend %
0.00 %
20.13 %
0.00 %
0.00 %
Payout %
0.0
0.85
0.0
0.0
Book value
8.91
10.71
7.12
8.12
9.14
Market to book
0.84
1.40
0.81
1.35
1.99
Cashflow per stock
0.0
-0.11
0.69
0.10
-0.07
Stocks
15
15
17
17
17
Market Cap
161.25
115.94
147.77
100.97
76.99

Dividend Quest for Growth


Price info Quest for Growth

Date
Price
22 Mar 2024
4.59
18 Mar 2024
4.55
15 Mar 2024
4.60
12 Mar 2024
4.58
11 Mar 2024
4.56
09 Mar 2024
4.56
07 Mar 2024
4.59
01 Mar 2024
4.58
29 Feb 2024
4.68
27 Feb 2024
4.72
22 Feb 2024
4.65
21 Feb 2024
4.74
20 Feb 2024
4.64
15 Feb 2024
4.65
14 Feb 2024
4.68
13 Feb 2024
4.77
09 Feb 2024
4.74
08 Feb 2024
4.74
07 Feb 2024
4.90
06 Feb 2024
4.95
05 Feb 2024
4.86
01 Feb 2024
4.91
31 Jan 2024
4.91
30 Jan 2024
4.90
27 Jan 2024
4.93
25 Jan 2024
4.80
24 Jan 2024
4.80
23 Jan 2024
4.85
16 Jan 2024
4.94
11 Jan 2024
4.94